Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An excavation in the form of steps made by the mining of ore from steeply inclined or vertical veins.
- transitive verb To remove (ore) from or mine by means of a stope.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Middle English forms of
stapen , past participle of step. - noun An excavation made in a mine to remove the ore which has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- In mining, to remove the contents of a vein.
- noun An obsolete form of
stoop .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Stepped; gone; advanced.
- transitive verb To excavate in the form of stopes.
- transitive verb To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
- noun (Mining) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mining excavation in the form of aterrace ofsteps . - verb mining To excavate in the form of stopes.
- verb mining To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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People need to grow up and stope seeing what they can sue people over.
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People need to grow up and stope seeing what they can sue people over.
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Leahy should stope lecturing on racial politics to amke his poltical point.
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For a # of years I used Rems Extended Range l68 grs, but they stope making them and went to the Sciroccos.
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For a # of years I used Rems Extended Range l68 grs, but they stope making them and went to the Sciroccos.
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The best pratice you can use is a 22 or a BB gun try all positions then when you think you got a tuch for how to stope teh game, switch to the hutgig gun you gonna use with cheapo ammo.
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“A drawpoint is a horizontal plan located at the base of a stope that is generally the link between the stope and the haulage drift allowing recuperation of the broken ore.” trackback
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Question: What is Drawpoint? 2008
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Kamel Labiad 1 month ago wow great work was that stope motion?
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And yan, if it wes his mynd and will yat he should be disponit vpoun, ye said deaconis and craftismen sould convey him yaire; quha answerit, yat yai culd na way stope ye executioun of justice.
The Abbot 2008
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They discovered an unknown underground mine working - tunnel, raise, or stope - and that was not what we were hoping to discover an ore deposit is more like what we were looking for.
Stuck Again Silver Fox 2008
skipvia commented on the word stope
Steps or shelves left around a mining site after the removal of ore-bearing dirt.
March 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word stope
I was examining stopes just the other day. A stope is better defined as the area (off the main shaft) from which ore-bearing rock is extracted.
March 10, 2008